Ompohualli oncaxtolli onchiucnahui (MH910r)

Ompohualli oncaxtolli onchiucnahui (MH910r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyphs for the notation ontecpantli oncaxtolli onnahui (“two twenties, plus fifteen, plus four,” or “fifty-nine”). The glyph shows two upright flags each representing tecpantli, or “twenty.” They both fly toward the viewer’s right. To the right of the flags is a crescent (worth a count of fifteen, caxtolli) with the opening facing upward. Coming in a straight line above this opening in the crescent is a vertical row of four (nahui) black single dots (or “ones”).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss in this case is a Roman numeral, so the transliteration of the number has been compiled here by the editor, drawing from Alonso de Molina’s rendering in his Vocabulario, but switching out his use of pohualli for twenty in favor of the Huexotzinco’s preference for tecpantli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

números, veintes, quince, cuatro, banderas, puntos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ompohualli oncaxtolli onnahui, fifty-nine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ompohualli-oncaxtolli-onnahui
tecpan(tli), a flag representing twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli
caxtol(li), fifteen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxtolli
nahui, four, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

cinquenta y nueve

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 910r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=890&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

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